Alpha-OSF-Managers Policy Statement

From: Dave Sill <de5_at_sws5.CTD.ORNL.GOV>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 14:32:23 -0400 (EDT)

EVERYONE WHO RECEIVES THIS MESSAGE HAD BETTER READ IT THOROUGHLY.

This message is a summary of the Alpha-OSF-managers charter and
rules. Failure to adhere to these guidelines may result in severe
chastisement by the list maintainer and other list participants.
Retain a copy of this statement and refer to it before submitting
messages to the list or the list administrator.

Changes from previous versions of this message are indicated with
change bars to the right of the message.

0: Send DEC Alpha AXP management queries and summaries to
alpha-osf-managers_at_ornl.gov.

1: This list is NOT moderated! Every message that is sent to the
list will be passed on to every member of the list (with a few
small exceptions).

2: This mailing list is managed by a utility called Majordomo. You
can subscribe to the list by sending a message like:

subscribe alpha-osf-managers

to Majordomo_at_ornl.gov. Likewise, if you want to remove yourself
from the list, send the message:

unsubscribe alpha-osf-managers

to the same address.

For a complete list of Majordomo commands, use the command:

help

3: This list is intended to be a quick-turnaround trouble shooting
aid for those who administer and manage Alpha AXP systems runnning
OSF/1. Its primary purpose is to provide the Alpha manager with a
quick source of information for system management problems that
are of a time-critical nature.

4: Answers to questions are to be mailed back to the questioner and
are NOT to be sent to the entire list. The person who originally
asked the question has the responsibility of summarizing the
answers and sending the entire summary back to the list. When a
summary is sent back to the list, it should contain the word
"SUMMARY" as the first word of the "Subject" line.

5: Discussions on ANY topic are very strongly discouraged and will
not normally be tolerated.

6: If it is not specifically related to Alpha AXP/OSF management,
then it does NOT belong on this list. Requests for vendor
recommendations are tolerated, provided that the hardware in
question is something that system managers normally purchase.

7: Requests for software (free or otherwise) should be limited to
software that is directly related to Alpha/OSF management ONLY.

8: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE...Think before you send a message! Ask
yourself "is this really appropriate?" There are enough other
newsgroups and mailing lists around to cover the marginal topics.
Perhaps there is another forum that is more appropriate.

9: Alpha-OSF-Managers messages are archived and available via
http (also known as WWW, Web, and Mosaic). They're in "hypermail"
format, so you can browse through them in date, author, subject
and thread orders, plus they're WAIS searchable.
Open the URL http://www-archive.stanford.edu/mail-archs.html to |
access the archives. |
(thanks to Jeff Lewis, lewis_at_netserver.stanford.edu)

Other forums that relate to DEC Alpha systems (please mail me
corrections and additions to this list):

Newsgroups:
    comp.sys.dec includes all DEC hardware and software
    comp.unix.osf.osf1 OSF/1 on Alpha and other platforms

                                  Dave Sill
                                Alpha-OSF-managers maintainer
                                Workstation Support
                                Oak Ridge National Laboratory
                                <de5_at_ornl.gov>
Received on Tue Jul 18 1995 - 20:54:33 NZST

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